Subfamily Metopiinae Förster 1869 (ichneumon wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae

Alternative spelling: Metopioidae

Full reference: A. Förster. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens 25:135-221

Parent taxon: Ophioniformes according to S. Klopfstein et al. 2019

See also Förster 1869, Khalaim 2014, Klopfstein and Spasojevic 2019, Lewis 1969 and Menier et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Anomaloninae, Banchinae, Campopleginae, Cremastinae, Ctenopelmatinae, Mesochorinae, Ophioninae, Tersilochinae, Tryphoninae

Subtaxa: Acerataspis Exochini Hypsicera Metopiosa Periope Spudaeus Triclistus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), United States (1: Washington)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Colorado)

• Eocene of Denmark (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)

Total: 10 collections including 15 occurrences

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